From: Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kevin Carson wrote:
They are indeed two entirely different cases. The latter case, of welfare
state concessions, is productively examined in Piven and Cloward's
*Regulating the Poor*. To a certain extent, the welfare state is
something forced on the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping
homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent
political instability.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness
and starvation
In all fairness, I didn't claim that welfare does increase homelessness,
though I suspect that it does, but merely pointed out that the statement seemed to
presume--or that in any case people supporting welfare often presume--that it
decreases homelessness.
As for emprical research, I second
From: Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kevin Carson's remarks on Kolko reminded me that I recently reread Kolko
and had some comments to share.
Just for background: Kolko's *Triumph of Conservatism* was written largely
as a left-wing attack on mainstream liberalism. Kolko's message was that
In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping homelessness
and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political instability.
This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness and
starvation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping
homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent
political instability.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness
and starvation rather than
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping
homelessness
and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political instability.
This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces
In a message dated 6/19/03 10:28:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping
homelessness
and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political
In a message dated 6/19/03 9:40:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping
homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent
political instability.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This of course presumes
